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Sunday, 2 March 2014

Read an E-Book Week 2014

March 2nd to 8th is Read an EBook Week and once again some of Jemima Pett's Princelings of the East series ebooks will be free or at ridiculous discounts.

It may surprise you to know that the fastest growing use
of ereaders is in Africa and Asia - specifically in poor communities
that cannot afford books. As western technophiles upgrade from one
eReader to another, second hand ones find their way to communities who
can make very good use of them. The key partner in this is the
non-profit organisation Worldreader. You can read more about the work
they are doing, and their new programme in conjunction with the UN
Refugee Agency in this article. If you've got an old kindle that you no longer need, you can donate it to the Worldreader program. Check the REBW facebook page for details